Hart's-horn Tree, Near Penrith Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCDBEFGEFG| Here stood an Oak that long had borne affixed | A |
| To his huge trunk or with more subtle art | B |
| Among its withering topmost branches mixed | A |
| The palmy antlers of a hunted Hart | B |
| Whom the Dog Hercules pursued his part | B |
| Each desperately sustaining till at last | C |
| Both sank and died the life veins of the chased | D |
| And chaser bursting here with one dire smart | B |
| Mutual the victory mutual the defeat | E |
| High was the trophy hung with pitiless pride | F |
| Say rather with that generous sympathy | G |
| That wants not even in rudest breasts a seat | E |
| And for this feeling's sake let no one chide | F |
| Verse that would guard thy memory Hart's Horn Tree | G |
William Wordsworth
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